ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter calls for a shift in how we analyse the agency of immigrant, migrant and racialised women in sex work. Social difference (notably racial, ethnic, linguistic difference) has been primarily used to analyse the risk and vulnerability of those perceived to be ‘migrant sex workers’, which has often included migrant as well as immigrant and racialised workers. Yet there is a risk of stunting our understanding of sex work if social difference is limited to assessing risk and vulnerability. There remains an opportunity to broaden analyses of social difference by exploring its role and function in women’s mobility and security in sex work. This may better reflect the lived realities of women in sex work and advance conceptualisations of agency in sex work.
